Stampedes: Lessons not learnt, and does anyone care?
Yet another major festival, yet another stampede. 18 lives were lost in a stampede at a Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, and the story sounds very familiar. An inquiry has been ordered, an FIR registered, heads will roll, the organisers have been arrested, and compensation announced for the family of the deceased and
When festivities find a home at work
Office celebrations bring together people from various backgrounds, turning a festival into an excellent opportunity for team bonding and mutual cultural appreciation
Questions over leadership and accountability
Prime Minister Narendra Modi often speaks of his humble beginnings as a chaiwala at a railway station in Vadnagar, Gujarat. However, questions about his educational qualifications and his responses to the media have continued to fuel public debate. During the COVID-19 pandemic, appeals to bang pots, pans and steel plates...
Safety concerns on Porvorim service road
Following the disastrous accident on the Porvorim flyover, the PWD has finally woken up to the need for installing signboards along the service road. However, the confusing speed limit signs, with 40 km/h displayed on the service road and 65 km/h on the road meant for the new flyover from...
Witnessing tragedy at Durga Puja festivities
Suvendu Adhikari, CM of Bengal for all his talk bordering on bluff and bluster falls flat in his administrative ability. The incident of the stampede in the Chorbagan Durga Puja location on Oct 17 is a case in point where in a stampede some 19 persons died and many were...
TODAYS EDITORIAL
Short-term moves won’t hold water
A 31 per cent rainfall deficit and a winter season that feels more like summer, with temperatures shooting over 37 degrees. Goa is heading into the summer of 2027 with growing concerns over water security. The memory of 2026, when water levels in several key reservoirs fell to dangerously low...
OPINION & COLUMNS
When festivities find a home at work
Office celebrations bring together people from various backgrounds, turning a festival into an excellent opportunity for team bonding and mutual cultural appreciation
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Restore deleted voter names
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Girish Chodankar has alleged that around 1.39 lakh voter names in Goa have been fraudulently deleted from the recent SIR electoral rolls exercise by the Election Commission. Accordingly, Chodankar has demanded the immediate restoration of all eligible voter names that were deleted without even...
